I just saw a news article on the B.C. forest fires and was wondering if 
 militrary aircraft could be used to fight them? Create some bombs filled 
 with either water or that powder that they drop. To make things easier you 
 could make the bombs the same shape and size as an existing bomb, say a 
 MK84 or one of it's bigger cousins. That way any aircraft that could 
 handle the explosive bomb could handle the firefighting one. It might even 
 make for an interesting precision bombing training exercise for the 
 pilots. That would also be true of the ground crew too as they tried 
 turning planes around to get the most number os sorties flown. 
  
 The only question is if it would be economically feasible. It might be 
 that the biggest bang for the buck might be a B-52 carpet bombing a forest 
 fire with firefighting bombs. Wouldn't that be a sight to see? 
 -- 
 john R. Latala 
 jrlatala@golden.net 
  
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